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June 2010
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Contents
Informatica Domain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Informatica Domain Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Informatica Domain Fixes (9.0.1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Informatica Domain Known Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 PowerCenter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 PowerCenter Compilers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 PowerCenter Fixes (9.0.1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 PowerCenter Known Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 PowerCenter Third-Party Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 PowerExchange. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 PowerExchange Fixes (9.0.1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 PowerExchange Known Limitations (9.0.1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 PowerExchange Closed Enhancement Requests (9.0.1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Informatica Analyst. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Informatica Analyst Fixes (9.0.1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Informatica Analyst Known Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Informatica Developer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Informatica Developer Fixes (9.0.1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Informatica Developer Known Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Informatica Developer Third-Party Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Data Quality Content Installer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Data Quality Content Installer Fixes (9.0.1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Data Quality Content Installer Known Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Data Quality Integration for PowerCenter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Data Quality Integration for PowerCenter Known Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Data Analyzer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
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Data Analyzer Known Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Metadata Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Metadata Manager Fixes (9.0.1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Metadata Manager Known Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Informatica Global Customer Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 This document contains important information about installation, fixed limitations, and known limitations for the Informatica domain, PowerCenter, PowerExchange, Data Analyzer, Metadata Manager, Informatica Data Quality, Informatica Data Services, and Data Quality Content.
Informatica Domain
Informatica Domain Installation
Informatica Domain Patches and Libraries
Platform Linux-x64 Linux-x86 Linux-x64 Operating System Redhat 5.3 Redhat 5.3 SuSe 10 64- bit Operating System Patch 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 2.6.18-128.el5 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (x86_64) VERSION = 10 PATCHLEVEL = 3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (i586) VERSION = 10 PATCHLEVEL = 3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64) VERSION = 11 PATCHLEVEL = 0 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (i586) VERSION = 11 PATCHLEVEL = 0 U6 10/08- kernel-patch 137137-09 SP2 and above Java 6 Patch 1.6.0_13 1.6.0_13 1.6.0_13
Linux-x86
SuSe 10 32-bit
1.6.0_13
Linux-x64
SuSe 11 64-bit
1.6.0_13
Linux-x86
SuSe11 32-bit
1.6.0_13
1.6.0_13 1.6.0_13 (win x64) 1.6.0_12 (win x86) 1.6.0_13 (win x64) 1.6.0_12 (win x86) IBM Java for AIX 1.6.0 SR5
SP1 SP1 OS level 5300-08 bos.adt.debug Version 6.1.0 (Fileset bos.adt.debug) OS level: 6100-00 bos.adt.debug Version 6.1.0 (Fileset bos.adt.debug)
AIX 64-bit
AIX 6.1
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Platform HP
HP
HP-UX 11.23
To run the AXIS samples or any client application developed with AXIS, you need AXIS 1.4. You can find AXIS libraries in $INFA_HOME/server/samples/WebServices/lib/axis-1.4.
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Workaround: Run the following DB2 command on the Metadata Manager repository:
REORG TABLE IMW_CONNECTION
Then, re-upgrade the Metadata Manager Service using the mmcmd upgradeRepository command. mmcmd is located in the following Informatica Services installation directory:
<Installation directory>\services\MetadataManagerService\utilities\mmcmd
If you do not add the path, the Reporting Service does not start and the following error appears in the Console-Redirect.log file in the tomcat/jboss/server/Informatica/log directory:
'findstr' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
PowerCenter Installation
Orchestration server configuration fails on HP-UX and Solaris 64 during the Informatica Services installation or upgrade. The installer cannot find the libjli.so library. Before you run the Informatica installer, set the library path environment variable: HP-UX
setenv SHLIB_PATH <installer_location>/source/java/jre/lib/IA64W/jli
Solaris 64
setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH <installer_location>/source/java/jre/lib/sparcv9/jli
The installer location is the path to the directory where you extracted the Informatica installer.
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Description The Navigator in the Administrator tool does not list all services if a PowerCenter Integration Service is configured to run on a grid with no node. Trusted connection not stored for Microsoft SQL Server connections. HTTP port number for some services not displayed in logs. Port number used by Data Integration Service not displayed in logs. On IBM AIX 64-bit, queries to the SQL data service that return very large numbers of rows can fail. Cannot configure permissions for operating system profiles. The script for the Informatica Services uninstaller fails to start when you run it on machines with a Turkish locale. When the master gateway node fails over to another node, all other gateway nodes shut down. When you create a PowerCenter Integration Service through infacmd and you do not specify the code page process option, you cannot view or change the code pages in the Administrator tool. When the gateway node fails over, the Model Repository Service continues to try to connect to the previous gateway node. infacmd considers case for parameters such as node name when you create a service. The service appears in the Navigator but not in the domain perspective. An error may appear when you expand a folder of users in the Administrator tool and the folder contains a lot of users, such as 2,000 users. The infasetup isp defineDomain command does not have a parameter to configure the schema for a Microsoft SQL Server database. The DTM hangs when you connect to mySQL through ODBC to preview columns of the bit datatype with a precision greater than 8. You cannot import a Sybase table through ODBC when the table name contains more than 30 characters. For more information, contact DataDirect and refer to issue WR W911130019.a. The master node shuts down if it does not have enough file descriptors. Some master domains may require more than 1,024 file descriptors.
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Description If you create a Data Integration Service with a user other than the repository administrator for the Model repository connection, you are prompted to upgrade the service. Workaround: Delete the Data Integration Service, and create it with a user that has the Model repository Administrator role. You cannot use the Administrator tool to edit the Log Directory Path property for the nodes in the domain. When you restart the domain, the property uses the default value configured in the nodemeta.xml file. (fixed in 9.0.1 HotFix 1) The infacmd dis CreateService command generates an exception when you create a Data Integration Service with a port that is out of range. (fixed in 9.0.1 HotFix 1) Reporting Service user privilege assignments are lost when you restart the domain. Workaround: Use roles to assign user privileges. If you delete the node associated with a Model Repository Service, the JVM Command Line Options advanced service property is set to null. As a result, you cannot edit any Model Repository Service properties. Workaround: Add the following default value to the JVM Command Line Options property: -Xms256m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 LDAP user privileges assignments are lost when you upgrade a PowerCenter 8.1.1 Repository Service. (fixed in 9.0.1 HotFix 1) Model repository databases on IBM DB2 contain inconsistent data when the service upgrade fails. Workaround: Complete the following steps to retry the Model Repository Service upgrade: 1. Delete the contents of the Model repository database. Use infacmd mrs DeleteContents or the IBM DB2 database client to delete the contents of the database. 2. Use the IBM DB2 database client to restore the 9.0 Model repository from a backup. 3. Use the upgrade wizard to upgrade the Model Repository Service. If you run three or more Reporting Services on an HP-UX 11.31 node, the JBoss process that runs the Reporting Services fails. Workaround: Allocate more memory to JBoss. 1. Use a text editor to open the run.conf file in the following directory: <Informatica_Installation_Directory>/tomcat/jboss/bin 2. Search for the following text:JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Xms 3. Set the values for Xms and Xmx to 1024 or more. For example:
JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Xms1024m -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Dsun.rmi.dgc.client.gcInterval=3600000 Dsun.rmi.dgc.server.gcInterval=3600000"
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4. Restart the Reporting Services. 231425 The Service Manager cannot upgrade or import LDAP subgroups that have the same name. For example, you have the following groups in an 8.6.1 LDAP security domain or in an LDAP directory service: - Parent_Group1 - Child_Group - Parent_Group2 - Child_Group When the Service Manager upgrades the 8.6.1 LDAP security domain or imports the LDAP users and groups, the Service Manager removes the first Child_Group and keeps the second Child_Group. The second Child_Group becomes the subgroup of both parent groups.
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Description Informatica fails to start if you create the domain configuration repository on a Microsoft SQL Server database and you select the following options during installation: - Use a trusted connection to connect to Microsoft SQL Server. - Run the Informatica Windows service under the user account that installed Informatica. Workaround: - If you use a trusted connection to connect to Microsoft SQL Server, run the Informatica Windows service under a different user account. - If you use a trusted connection and run the Informatica Windows service under the same account, start Informatica from the command line. Use the following command: infaservice startup The Administrator tool might display a blank screen instead of the login page. The Administrator tool log is empty and no errors appear. Workaround: Stop Informatica services. Delete the following folders in the <INFA_HOME>/services/AdministratorConsole directory: - adminhelp_en - adminhelp_pt_BR - administrator Restart the Informatica services. (fixed in 9.0.1 HotFix 1) Domain upgrade, domain restart, and LDAP user synchronization processing time increases proportionally with the number of users in the domain. When the domain contains more than 1,000 users, the domain may shut down unexpectedly and the Edit Roles and Privileges dialog box fails to launch for LDAP users. Workaround: Increase the system memory used by the domain. Complete the following steps on each gateway node to increase the system memory for the domain: 1. Go to the <901InstallationDir>/tomcat/bin directory and open infaservice.(bat|sh) in a text file editor. 2. Update the -Xmx value for INFA_JAVA_OPTS. In infaservice.bat, update the following line of code: set INFA_JAVA_OPTS=%INFA_JAVA_OPTS% -XX:GCTimeRatio=9 -Xmx512m In infaservice.sh, update the following line of code: INFA_JAVA_OPTS="${INFA_JAVA_OPTS} -XX:GCTimeRatio=9 -Xmx512m" For example, to set the system memory to 2 GB, use -Xmx2048m. If the Administrator tool is configured to use HTTPS and the keystore file is deleted, you cannot access the Administrator tool. Workaround: Create a keystore file for the Administrator tool in the directory indicated in the following log file: <Informatica_Installation_Dir>\tomcat\temp\_AdminConsole\logs\catalina.<Date>.log View the log file and search for the log message that shows the expected location of the keystore file:
LifecycleException: service.getName(): "_AdminConsole"; Protocol handler start failed: java.io.FileNotFoundException: <KeystorePathAndFileName> (No such file or directory)
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LifecycleException: service.getName(): "_AdminConsole"; Protocol handler start failed: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /export/home/901/source/isp/bin/keystore_lin64 (No such file or directory)
In this error message, the expected location of the keystore file is /export/home/901/source/isp/bin and the keystore file name is keystore_lin64. 222640 You must specify the Java memory values in megabytes. You cannot specify gigabytes or kilobytes. (fixed in 9.0.1 HotFix 1) You cannot convert an existing master gateway node to serve as a worker node. The infasetup isp defineDomain command returns incorrect error messages when the command contains tablespace errors. The $PMRootDir service process variable shows unknown location after you add a node to a grid. (fixed in 9.0.1 HotFix 1) When you create a grid, the Administrator tool displays the following inappropriate messages: - You need to set up a codepage and enable the process on this node for each Integration Service that runs on this grid. - Removing node(s) will abort Integration Service processes running on it. You can ignore these messages.
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Description An application service may not work correctly when you make changes to the service. - The Analyst Service may be in an ambiguous state when you change the Model Repository Service, Data Integration Service, or staging database connection associated with an Analyst Service. Workaround: Restart the Analyst Service. - The PowerCenter Integration Service may be in an ambiguous state when you change the PowerCenter Repository Service associated with a PowerCenter Integration Service. Workaround: Restart the PowerCenter Integration Service. - An application service may be in an ambiguous state when you change the node on which the service runs. Workaround: Restart the application service. An LDAP security domain that is recently added to the domain does not appear when you create or edit a PowerCenter Integration Service. Workaround: Refresh the page where you create or edit the PowerCenter Integration Service. The first time that you select an application service and click Actions > View Logs for Service, the Logs tab displays log events for all service types. Each subsequent time that you view the logs for a service, the Logs tab displays log events for the selected service only. (added 07/14/2010) You cannot edit the Analyst Service in the Administrator tool after you delete the associated Data Integration Service and Model Repository Service. Workaround: Re-create the Analyst Service, or create the associated application services with the same name. Non-administrator users cannot connect to an application service after a master gateway failover if the application service does not have a backup node. Workaround: Recycle the application service. (fixed in 9.0.1 HotFix 1)
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PowerCenter Compilers
You can use any C compiler for Custom transformation procedures. Use the C++ compiler versions that appear in the Product Availability Matrix. The Product Availability Matrix is available on the Support page at http://mysupport.informatica.com. Use C++ compiler versions for any External Procedure or Custom transformation, and when you develop with PowerExchange SDK. If you compiled the DLL or shared library with a C++ compiler version that does not appear in the Product Availability Matrix, you need to recompile it. You do not need to recompile a Java transformation if the JDK is compatible with the version that you used for the previous compile.
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Remove the backslash (\) at the end of the path before the semicolon (;). For example, this path is incorrect:
c:\Informatica\9.0\tools\datadirect\;c:\oracle\bin
(fixed in 9.0.1 HotFix 1) 236462 The Integration Service displays an invalid user and password error if you run a workflow with the following conditions: 1. Create a workflow and assign an Integration Service to the workflow. 2. Delete the Repository Service. 3. Create a Repository Service with the same name. 4. Connect to the Integration Service from the Workflow Monitor. -orRun the workflow from the Workflow Manager. Workaround: Recycle the Integration Service. The Designer does not highlight text in the Java Code tab when you define an expression for a Java transformation.
The DTM process fails with an unexpected condition when Repeat Null Characters contains double byte characters for fixed-width flat files. The PowerCenter Repository Service on HP-UX 11.31 causes memory leaks when you perform continuous operations against the PowerCenter repository. Continuous operations include running workflows, importing and exporting objects, and connecting to the repository. When the Repository Service leaks memory, it hangs when you delete a folder.
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Description The Portuguese PowerCenter Designer cannot find the XML templates when you select a menu item in the slowly changing dimensions mapping template wizard. Workaround: Copy directory PowerCenter\client\bin\pmmaptmplimp\Templates\pt_BRto a new directory and name the directory PowerCenter\client\bin\pmmaptmplimp\Templates\pt. Keep both folders. Run the mapping wizard again. (fixed in 9.0.1 HotFix 1) You cannot enter tab keys on the Java Code tab of the Java transformation. A PowerCenter Integration Service that runs on Windows 64 shuts down unexpectedly when you debug a mapping and the Create a Debug Session Instance option is enabled. The Integration Service writes an incorrect decimal number to a DB2 target decimal column when the precision is 19 or greater and PowerCenter is running on Linux 32-bit. Workaround: Enable high precision. In Mapping Architect for Visio, an error occurs when you edit a PowerExchange source definition or links between mapping objects where the group name property of PowerExchange database contains special characters. A session uses an increasing amount of memory when a Java transformation passes rows to the Unstructured Data transformation. Pushdown optimization session fails when Source Qualifier transformations are based on the same source. When you enter a date range for a random data mask, the Designer accepts invalid date values.
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PowerExchange Fixes (9.0.1)
CR 235951 Description If you import a COBOL copybook when creating a data map in the PowerExchange Navigator, PowerExchange incorrectly creates a dummy column named FILLER_REDEF_1 if it encounters a REDEFINES clause within an OCCURS clause. When you run a database row test on the data map, an error occurs. A bulk data movement session that writes to a VSAM relative record data set might fail with message PWX-00784, indicating that update mode is not supported, even though the transaction type for the PWX NRDB Batch connection is defined as insert only. During a cold start of the Datacom table-based ECCR, an inflight dummy UOW (FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF0000) causes the ECCR to fail.
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Description For DB2 for i5/OS CDC in real-time extraction mode, PowerExchange incorrectly sets the value of the DLT_CAPXRRN column in many change records to 2147483647 when offload processing is enabled. PowerExchange issues error message PWX-10232 during an Oracle CDC session that extracts changes in continuous extraction mode from PowerExchange Logger for Linux, UNIX, and Windows log files. If you try to register a DB2 for i5/OS table that was created in the i5/OS SQL interface and has a long file name in mixed case, the PowerExchange registration process fails. PowerExchange expects the long file name to be in uppercase. When you run a PowerCenter session with a flat file target and a z/OS source that uses a German code page for the source application connection, fields that are defined as ZONED and UNZONED are converted to zeros. Oracle sends backout records for a failed update to the PowerExchange UOW Cleanser for CDC in an order that PowerExchange does not expect. As a result, extraction processing stops. When a CDC session tries to extract changes from a PowerExchange Logger for Linux, UNIX, or Windows log file in continuous extraction mode, it might fail with error messages PWX-10232 and PWX-23046 because of unnecessary checking of sequence information. In a PowerExchange Navigator database row test and in a PowerCenter session run, Hebrew characters are displayed in reverse order. During a change from daylight savings time to standard time, PowerExchange Condense processing fails with the message PWX-10232, which indicates an internal error occurred. The default DBTYPE for database row tests should be CAPXRT. The IDMS ECCR abends with message PWX-00999 when processing a journal. The message indicates the following program logic error: "UOW Hash Table - Unexpected primary AREA duplicate for run unit id." The DB2 for z/OS ECCR abends with message PWXEDM177588E when reading the catalog for a table space defined in a storage group that uses an extended-addressing-enabled SMS data class. When a PowerCenter workflow includes a Lookup transformation for a PowerExchange source with a != condition in a SQL WHERE clause, PowerExchange issues an error message indicating that the != condition is not supported. The IDMS ECCR abends with an EC6 error code, indicating a CPU usage timeout, when processing a journal. During DB2 for z/OS ECCR processing, share locks that the DB2 IFI306 interface obtains on the catalog, the work table space, and various customer table spaces are not released. IMS synchronous CDC processing abends after patch P519776 is applied. When the security feature is enabled, that is, the first parameter in the SECURITY statement is set to 1 or 2 in the DBMOVER file for both the source and target PowerExchange Listeners, the DTLURDMO utility requires the same USER and PASSWORD values for both the source and target. The PRESTLIB JCL that you run when installing a hotfix on z/OS does not reflect changes to DB2 for z/OS members in the DBRM library. As a result, a bind error occurs. Some SQL Server registrations that are created with the DTLUCBRG utility do not appear in the PowerExchange Navigator. After you restart a PowerExchange Logger for Linux, UNIX, and Windows process that ended abnormally, the process fails with message PWX-10232, which indicates a sequence error. Workflows might fail to restart when RESTART1=CURRENT_RESTART and RESTART2=CURRENT_RESTART are specified in the restart token file.
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Description Multiple CDC sessions that use the CAPXRT access method and have Oracle sources might write the Oracle catalogs to the log files at the same time, resulting in reduced performance and unnecessary write activity. When an Oracle database uses a Japanese code page, Oracle messages that indicate a connection error and are issued during a PowerCenter session are not translated correctly. A memory leak occurs during IMS synchronous CDC processing when units of work (UOWs) from an external subsystem are mixed with BMP processing in a DBCTL environment. PowerExchange does not support IMS 7 for CDC processing. If you use PowerExchange Condense or the PowerExchange Logger for Linux, UNIX, and Windows and set its NO_DATA_WAIT parameter to a time interval, in seconds, that is less than the FILE_SWITCH_VAL time interval, in minutes, condense processing might become erratic. The PowerExchange Condense task might end abnormally on i5/OS if you receive the following message and enter a response other than Y or N:
PWX: Error 1 on Delete of file PWX860CND2CHKPT(V0). Retry? (Y/N)
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If you use PWXPC with an extraction map source that contains BI or CI columns and attempt to extract change data from full condense files that contain before and after images, PowerExchange incorrectly issues message PWX-04548.
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PowerExchange is not able to read DB2 for z/OS image copies for partitioned table spaces. In this situation, PowerExchange issues the following message:
PWX-09263 Dictionary Page found. Image copy reading not supported for compressed TS.
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Oracle change data that PowerExchange extracts in conjunction with Oracle LogMiner might be incomplete if you run PowerExchange in an Oracle RAC environment. Oracle LogMiner might not extract all change data when performing continuous mining across log sequences that contain points in time where one or more instances have been stopped or started. As a result, the application of change data to target tables can either fail or be incomplete. Workaround: For information about the problem, refer to Oracle bug number 6596564 or contact Oracle Support for assistance. Oracle supplies patches to fix this problem for Oracle 10.2.04. Oracle has incorporated the fix into Oracle 10.2.0.5 and 11.2. If the lowest level segment in an IMS database is not keyed, the Update all matching segments option on the IMS Options tab of the Table Properties dialog box in the PowerExchange Navigator does not work. Workaround: Do not select the Update all matching segments option if you have non-keyed segments.
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Description When concatenated key (CCK) fields are passed from IMS to PowerExchange to create SSAs, PowerExchange does not use a lower-level CCK field unless you provide the CCK of the ROOT. The absence of the root key causes unqualified GN calls to scan IMS databases. Workaround: Always specify the key of the root. When a DB2 for z/OS bulk data movement operation fails, PowerExchange might not write an error message to the PowerExchange message log or PowerCenter session log to notify you of the situation. The PowerCenter session appears to complete successfully.
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Informatica Analyst
Informatica Analyst Fixes (9.0.1)
CR 227649 225375 Description A scorecard does not show the total number of valid or not valid records. The Analyst Service on SuSe Linux 10 32 bit shuts down unexpectedly when you create a flat file data object or import a reference table from a flat file in the Analyst tool and preview the data.
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Description To enable the prebuilt Informatica rules to function correctly when installed to the Model repository, the staging database read by the rules must be named "Staging" and the user name and logon details of the application user must match the staging database connection details. When you create the Analyst Service on a worker node in the Informatica domain, a user cannot log in to the Analyst tool URL because the URL uses the host name for the gateway node instead of the worker node. The profiling warehouse can store a maximum of 85 Unicode characters (255 bytes) in a column value. If a column value exceeds this number, the value is truncated. The Analyst tool cannot drill down on column patterns in profiles that have UTF-8 data.
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Informatica Developer
Informatica Developer Fixes (9.0.1)
CR 236202 Description When you use an SQL data service as an ODBC data source for a Lookup transformation in a PowerCenter mapping, the associated session fails. You cannot preview an IBM DB2 table with an orderby clause. You cannot import a column with a space in the column name. You cannot propagate the datatype for Association or Consolidation transformation output groups. The Jaro Distance algorithm does not identify transposed characters. Application deployment fails when the project name and application name are identical. The Navigator lists duplicate table names when you connect to an ODBC datasource using WinSQL. A null pointer exception occurs when you preview a logical data object with an attribute that contains a list of values, a minimum value, a maximum value, or an expression. You cannot run a query against a virtual table if the virtual table mapping contains a Consolidation transformation. A Match transformation that uses a matching rule to generate identity match scores fails if the identity key field is not used in a matching strategy. The process does not display an error message. The Informatica JDBC Driver does not support the use of SQL escape sequences for date and time literals. A Parser transformation may not parse values correctly if you configure it in token parsing mode and select Reverse Enabled parsing. The Data Integration Service truncates data when it reads data from and writes the data to a column with a negative scale. Windows Authentication requires a user name and password for trusted connection. Matching operations can generate incorrect clusters when non-matching transformations are added to a matching rule. This issue has been observed when a Standardization transformation is added.
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Description Stack overflow exception occurs when you resize a virtual table created from a customized data object that contains multiple related tables. Workaround: Close the editor and reopen it before you resize the virtual table. (fixed in 9.0.1 HotFix 1) If you delete a reference table object from a project folder in the Developer tool or Analyst Tool, the reference table data remains in the staging database. If you configure a Labeler transformation to replace reference table entries with custom text, and you later open the transformation and select the same reference table, you must enter the custom text again. (fixed in 9.0.1 HotFix 1) The Mapping Service shuts down unexpectedly when you run a mapping with a large number of transformations, for example, 100 or more, on AIX. If you create two profiles that read different native metadata objects, you cannot define a join analysis on the native metadata objects across the two profiles. (fixed in 9.0.1 HotFix 1) The Developer tool cannot find a reference table that is specified in a parameter path if the path contains a forward slash separator. The Developer tool may consume unexpected amounts of memory if you open a reference table multiple times in succession. The memory consumption may increase to a point where the Developer tool becomes unresponsive and other machine processes are affected. Workaround: Close and reopen the Developer tool to view the reference table, or view the reference table through the Analyst tool. The Developer tool can specify a reference table as a parameter. It reads the parameter setting from a different tab depending on whether you run the mapping or run a profile on the mapping. When you run the mapping, the Developer tool looks for the parameter on the Parameters tab. When you profile output from a mapping object, the Developer tool looks for the parameter on the Configuration tab. The Data Integration Service does not update connection properties when you use database connection pooling and you change connection properties other than user name, password, and connection string between data previews. Workaround: Restart the Data Integration Service after you change connection properties. (fixed in 9.0.1 HotFix 1) If you enter a custom SQL query that contains a DDL statement in a customized data object, the Developer tool might execute the query against the database when you validate the query. Because the Developer tool does not retain key field information for nonrelational data sources, you cannot include an Update Strategy transformation in a Developer tool mapping for a nonrelational data source. You cannot preview data on a transformation that reads data from a mapping object that has multiple output groups. When you create a parameter that specifies a reference table, you cannot include the Model Repository Service name in the path to the reference table. The Decision transformation does not validate that the datatype returned by a transformation function is compatible with the datatype on the associated output port. (fixed in 9.0.1 HotFix 1) You cannot preview a relational resource if the resource, schema, or column names contain ASCII characters 0-30. Workaround: Enable the Support Mixed Case Identifiers option and specify the SQL identifier character for the connection. These options place quotes around the resource, schema, or column names in the SQL query the Data Integration Service uses to read data from the resource. (fixed in 9.0.1 HotFix 1)
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Description A profile created and run on a database table column in the Developer tool fails if the column name has changed since import and the column belongs to a table imported through the Developer tool. You cannot import a resource into the Developer tool if the resource name is null. You cannot preview an Oracle relational resource if the resource, schema, or column names contain a question mark character (?). A mapping that uses multiple Association transformations to associate record clusters in a flat-file data set of ten million records or greater may generate a cache memory error. (fixed in 9.0.1 HotFix 1) You cannot run a mapping that contains two side-by-side Match transformations when both transformations are set to identity match mode. Workaround: Configure the mapping to run the transformations serially. If you run a mapping that writes data to a SQL Server resource using the ODBC driver for SQL Server, the Data Integration Service rejects all records that contain data of type hierarchyid. Workaround: Use the native SQL Server driver instead of the ODBC driver. Bulk loading fails when you run a mapping that loads long varchar for bit data to an IBM DB2 database and the database server version is 9.1, the database client version is 9.5, and the Data Integration Service runs on 64-bit SUSE Linux. Address validation and profiling operations run slowly on Solaris. If you run multiple profiles on large files concurrently in the Developer tool, you may experience decreased profiling performance and profiling processes may consume excessive disk memory. (fixed in 9.0.1 HotFix 1) Mapping generates a core file on Solaris 64-bit if you enable Truncate Target Table for an IBM DB2 9.5.x target and you set the number of rows you want to preview to 0. The configuration settings for data quality transformations in mappings deployed to PowerCenter are not visible and cannot be edited. You cannot use Auto Link to connect ports to the Address Validator transformation if the linked ports define an address template that is not valid. Workaround: Connect ports to a single input port group on the Address Validator transformation.
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Description If you use the Developer tool to enter an SQL query against a SQL Server resource that contains a hierarchyid column, the query fails. The query fails because the DataDirect JDBC Driver for SQL Server does not support the hierarchyid data type. The Developer tool does not display IBM DB2 tables when you connect to the database through a user account that is assigned to a role with privileges on the tables. The Developer tool does not display the table because the DataDirect JDBC Driver for IBM DB2 does not support role-based privileges. The Developer tool does not display IBM DB2 tables when you connect to the database through a user account that is assigned to a group with privileges on the tables. You cannot import or preview MySQL resources if the resource contains a database reserved word or special character other than the dollar sign ($) character. The DataDirect ODBC Driver for MySQL, version 6.0.0.130 SP3, does not support database reserved words or special characters other than the "$" character. When the Developer tool reads data from Sybase resources with unsigned integer columns, data loss might occur because the DataDirect ODBC Driver for Sybase, version 6.0, retrieves unsigned integers with the same precision as signed integers. Workaround: After you import the resource into the Developer tool, change unsigned int columns to bigint columns. Change unsigned bigint columns to numeric(20,0) columns.
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Data Analyzer
Data Analyzer Known Limitations
There are no known limitations for Data Analyzer.
Metadata Manager
Metadata Manager Fixes (9.0.1)
CR 231388 229603 228336 227810 227362 227312 226867 226426 225452 224653 224366 Description Business glossary export performance is low. Metadata catalog is not visible after upgrading from 8.6. Metadata Manager encounters an XMI parsing error while reloading a Business Objects resource. Cannot import metadata catalog with the period (.) in the name. Lineage does not show source tables when a parameterized sql override query contains another parameter. Metadata Manager imports all Cognos personal folders with the name My Folder. Cannot load Oracle resource in Metadata Manager. Importing duplicate terms resulted in Business Glossary inconsistencies. The Informatica installer does not set the INFA_HOME variable in the MIRSetup.xml file used by the Metadata Manager Agent. Importing a business glossary Excel file that has terms shared with other business glossaries throws an exception. When you view data lineage, Metadata Manager occasionally displays the following error:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot create a session after the response has been committed
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Cannot enable the Metadata Manager Service on a worker node when the worker node is on a UNIX machine and the gateway node is on a Windows machine. The Metadata Manager File Location property for the Metadata Manager Service uses the incorrect file path separator. Importing a business glossary XML file fails to import related catalog objects for custom class objects. If you import a business glossary XML file and the user that created the links or comments for a business term does not exist in the target Metadata Manager instance, Metadata Manager does not import the links or comments created by the user. Metadata Manager displays that the import succeeds and does not notify you that the links or comments were not imported. Resource load fails for Microsoft SQL Server with encrypted procedures and triggers. If you upload more than 200 PowerCenter parameter files, the browser may hang during the file upload process. Load Monitor does not display session statistics for all sessions for a custom resource load. When you view data lineage for a business term and expand a class or export the diagram to Excel, an exception occurs.
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INSERT INTO IDP_WH_VERSION VALUES (5,2,6)
(fixed in 9.0.1 HotFix 1) 236963 You delete a user in the Informatica domain who is a data steward or owner for a category or a business term. However, Metadata Manager does not remove the deleted user from the data steward or owner assignment. Workaround: After deleting a user who is a data steward or owner for a category or business term, reassign another user as the data steward or owner. A PowerCenter resource can contain multiple instances of a mapplet where each mapplet instance is linked to a different source relational table. When you launch data lineage or view the impact summary for one of the source relational tables, lineage and the impact summary display all instances of the mapplet. Data lineage and the impact summary should display only the mapplet instance linked to the source table. When the Metadata Manager repository is on a database that contains multibyte data, Metadata Manager cannot send an email notification when you propose a business term for review. After you upgrade, the Metadata Manager Advanced User role does not include the Draft/Propose Business Terms privilege. Workaround: Use the Administrator tool to assign the privilege to the role. If a PowerCenter mapping contains mapping parameters with default values and if session level overrides are provided in a parameter file for the same property, Metadata Manager does not display the session level overrides in the mapping object properties. However, the session level override values are used to display lineage correctly. If you concurrently load two resources to a Metadata Manager repository on IBM DB2, Metadata Manager may fail one of the resource loads with the following error: Could not perform post load task. Cause:PreparedStatementCallback; SQL [INSERT INTO MM_ELEMENT_PATH (ELEMENT_UID, REPOSITORY_UID, NAME_PATH, ID_PATH) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?)]; [informatica][DB2 JDBC Driver][DB2]ROLLBACK DUE TO DEADLOCK/ TIMEOUT;REASON 2; If you create a business glossary in Microsoft Excel and do not specify the security domain that the data steward user account belongs to, Metadata Manager does not give the data steward user account full control on the business term when you import the business glossary. When Metadata Manager runs on UNIX and uses ODBC drivers to connect to a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 source, Metadata Manager fails to load the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 resource with the following error:
SQL Error [FnName: Fetch -- [Informatica][ODBC SQL Server Driver]20205].
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For a Microsoft Analysis and Reporting Services resource, Metadata Manager does not extract reports that use a relational database as the data source if the data source path is specified in the Report Server Content property. Workaround: In the Report Server Content property, specify the report folder path instead of the data source path.
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Description On an Oracle repository, Metadata Manager occasionally hangs while creating links between connected resources. Workaround: Analyze the Metadata Manager repository on Oracle to improve performance in the Metadata Manager application. If you assign a connection to multiple schemas, Metadata Manager creates links between matching objects for only one schema. On a Microsoft SQL Server repository, indexing for an SAP R/3 resource fails with an SQLException when an extracted application component does not have a unique name. Workaround: When configuring the SAP R/3 resource, do not extract application components that have a child or parent with the same name. If you create a struct relationship between an object class and a business term class in the Custom Metadata Configurator, you cannot create a field relationship between the business term and another object class type. A resource load fails if the associated Integration Service uses the IBM DB2 9.5 client and you load metadata from IBM DB2 9.1. If you change the direction of a relationship for a custom class, Metadata Manager does not update the direction for the relationship between the corresponding metadata objects in the catalog. Workaround: Reload the custom resource.
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